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Author Marko Bauer

Marko Bauer

Marko Bauer is a freelance writer exploring the freedom of useless thought and unwaged labour.

Pump and Dump: The Wolf of Wall Street

Marko Bauer
October 2014
Feature Articles
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) is a repulsive affair. A hybrid of Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and American Pie (Chris and Paul Weitz, 1999) it comes short of the former as well as the latt...

Thank God We Don’t Have a Pope: Habemus Papam, Moretti’s Apocalypse

Marko Bauer
March 2013
Feature Articles
“As nihilism becomes more and more the norm, the symbols of emptiness spread much more terror than those of power do.” – Ernst Jünger One nearly misses Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope, 2011) for the reason abse...

Pure West: Drive, nostalgia for postmodernism

Marko Bauer
July 2012
Feature Articles
It is a one way street and there, Walter Benjamin says: “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon sign says – but the fiery pool reflecting it in the aspha...

“Even God Was Overcome by Laziness”: An interview with Aleksandr Sokurov

Marko Bauer
December 2011
Feature Articles
A true poet of the cinema, the director of, amongst others, Russian Ark and The Sun, talks philosophy, religion, aesthetics and the Russian soul.

Son of Atlantis: prologues and epilogues with Sokurov

Marko Bauer, Luka Umek and Dasa Cerar
December 2011
Feature Articles
Using interview footage of Sokurov and combining it with other elements, the filmmakers produce a contemplative video-essay on the director.

Like Tears in… Brain

Marko Bauer
December 2011
Feature Articles
“The brain is the flesh.” Using ‘Artaud-Deleuze’ as a guide, Marko Bauer traverses the cerebral territory of Gaspar Noé’s film. Enter at your peril.

“Films are vulgar. And this vulgarity, I love it”: An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin

Marko Bauer
October 2010
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In this free-form interview the director of A Christmas Tale, King and Queens, amongst others, discusses everything from Truffaut and Godard, Stanley Cavell and disaster movies, Nietzsche and Italo Calvino, Jean Gabin and hip-hop, and more.

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